Clausmasとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Claus-mas

1. Alternative form of Clausmas.
   • 1990 December 21, Vicki L. Bryan, “Santa or Satan?”, in Kingsport Times-News, Southwest Virginia edition, 74th year, number 355, Kingsport, Tenn.: Kingsport Publishing Corp., →OCLC, page 8A, column 3:

     Quick! When you hear the word “Christmas,” what first comes to mind? Did you think, “Santa Claus?” If you did, chances are strong that you don’t celebrate Christmas; you celebrate “Claus-mas.” […] The way you celebrate Christmas shows who or what you worship. Don’t have “Claus-mas”; have Christ-mas! Christmas is a celebration of Jesus’ birthday!

   • 1993 December 13, Robert P. Renaud, “Don’t let commercialism cloud Christmas”, in The Berkshire Eagle, volume 102, number 236, Pittsfield, Mass.: Eagle Publishing Company, published 20 December 1993, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A6, column 5:

     For those who don’t yet know the joyous message of Christmas, and whose holiday season is a dreary, lifeless ritual, I wish a Merry Claus-mas, and a prayer that they will soon discover true peace and rest in the loving, gentle, comforting embrace of Jesus, the “reason for the season.”

   • 1997 December 23, John R. Norwood Jr., “Spiritual values: Celebrate Christmas, not Claus-mas”, in The Times, Trenton, N.J., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A15, column 6:

     The few presents they receive will be placed around that manger as a constant reminder of the greatest gift ever given—the reason we celebrate. Believers everywhere, I encourage you to celebrate Christmas and not Claus-mas. Perhaps if we do, those around us will experience the uncompromised joy, peace and hope that this season was meant to bring.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Clausmas.